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I want to return to a point I made indirectly yesterday. I want to make it more directly. We’re heading toward a genuine constitutional crisis with the President. “Constitutional crisis” is sort of a meaningless word. But let me try to give it more specific meaning: a threat to the rule of law and adherence to the constitution which the constitution itself does not provide a ready solution to, not under present political circumstances. Read More
We are now just 20 sign ups shy of our goal of signing up 800 1000 new Prime members. That’s a big way towards our goal of 1000 during the first week of the drive. You can have the glory of being one of those 20! Just click right here.
This is a little embarrassing. I meant 800, not 1000. 1000 is our goal by the end of this weekend. And I just switched the two in my head. Anyway, 800 is also awesome! It gets us pretty close to 1000!!! Let’s do this!
I don’t mean to add another obituary of John McCain, but only a footnote about an aspect of McCain’s background, character, and politics that the obituaries I’ve read has ignored. McCain was a member of America’s upper class and had the sensibility of a certain wing of that upper class. That’s important to understanding his contribution to American politics and his contempt for Donald Trump.
The US Postal Service has now stepped forward to take responsibility for an egregious breach not just of privacy but some of the most basic confidentiality rules in the US government. This is the case of Democrat Abigail Spanberger who is running against Rep. Dave Bratt in Virginia’s 7th congressional district. They released her whole government personnel file, including her SF-86 (the mega disclosure form Jared Kushner is still trying to figure out how to complete.) The Postal Service says the mistake was due to “human error”. Here’s the full story, along with Spanberger’s statement in which she notes the GOP oppo group the Post Office gave the documents to is still using it.
Trump: "They want to raid Medicare to pay for socialism." pic.twitter.com/fo43oziAmU
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 31, 2018
Trump lashes out at DOJ and FBI in Indiana rally tirade, threatens to takeover investigations, turn fire on Hillary. pic.twitter.com/beNgLWixFo
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 31, 2018
Earlier today I explained that we’re trying to get to 1000 new Prime members by the end of the first week of our sign-up drive. As of earlier this afternoon, we were 20 sign-ups shy of 800. Well we blew through that number. We’re now at 836 so far in this drive. That’s just 174 short of 1000. We have three days. We can totally do this. Glory awaits a lucky 174 TPM Readers who choose this moment to come on board. Seriously, this is super important. Join us. Click here.
Adam Kidan of Jack Abramoff and SunCruz fame is plowing money into the House GOP ahead of the midterms. If you don’t know the backstory, you should! Cameron Joseph talked to him.
The perennial question of whether Dems need to moderate or go full lefty may be moot in Florida this time around where the nomination of uber-progressive Andrew Gillum for governor could be a huge boost for Democrats’ chances of holding the Senate. Allegra Kirkland explains.